Chapter 17: Tinglan
Now Cao Lihuan's life is not easy. Previously, Zhao Yuechan was in charge, because she was still a little thin with Cao Lihuan, and the maids and servants still had a little respect for Cao Lihuan.
Cao Lihuan saw that the food was getting more and more unpresentable, and the daily pastries were not properly delivered, so she couldn't help but be furious, and personally led Hui'er to the kitchen to make noise. If the girl wants to eat well, she will buy it with her own money, and use the kitchen stove as she pleases. A grandmother wanted to eat rouge mushroom soup, or hung up the account of the big house, went out to buy mushrooms and came back to make it, the girl was not convinced, so she went to his wife, this was the order of his wife. After saying that, he broke the curtain and entered the house.
Cao Lihuan went to the Qin family in a fit of anger to complain and sued the Wangcai family. Qin Shi said with a solemn face: "There is such a minion? I'm going to set up a good set of rules when I go back. However, this year's year is not good, and the lady in the palace has cut her expenses. The people in our house can't be more expensive than the queen mother and the ladies? So the regulations in the family have been cut, and even Sister Qi wanted to eat an extra bowl of white fungus soup, and she grinded me for a long time, and then turned around and pouted and added silver to make a bowl. "The meaning of the words is that I want to continue to eat and drink in the Lin family - no way! If you are greedy, add your own money. Qin didn't say a few words and sent tea to the guests, and finally sent the girl Lu Yan next to her to give a reward to the Wangcai family, praising her for doing a good job.
Cao Lihuan came back and naturally got angry again, Xianglan hid out, Cao Lihuan was reluctant to hit Hui'er, and it was not good to scold Huairui, so she took a feather duster and beat the dog a few times, and she didn't understand her hatred and dropped a teacup.
Xianglan had nowhere to go, so she went around the Zhichun Pavilion. It happened that Xiaojuan was looking at the stove in the tea room, and when she saw Xianglan coming, she hurriedly let her sit on a small wooden stool, and ran out again to take two mung bean cakes for Xianglan to eat, and took her own cup to pour tea for Xianglan.
Xianglan smiled: "Don't be busy, I shouldn't sit for long before I should go back." The little master in my house is not easy to serve, and I dare not hang out for too long. ”
Xiaojuan stuffed the cup into Xianglan's hand and said: "Yes, everyone in the house says that Miss Huan is not good, she is small-minded and loves to be broad-minded, and she loves to be empty-headed the most, and she has no temperament." You are going to boil it out, and as soon as she gets married, you will be far away from her, and the eldest girl, second girl, and fourth girl in the big house are better than her. He fanned the stove twice and said in a low voice, "My life is much better, as soon as the eldest lady comes back, the big house is like a different world, and within a few days, I severely punished a favorite little girl Yin Liu, and punished the eldest grandmother several times, and now the room is really gone." ”
Xianglan looked at Xiaojuan's round face and smiling eyes, and smiled. Since she entered the Lin Mansion, Xiaojuan is the most uncalculated girl, and she is also the first friend she has made in the mansion, and the two of them feel relieved when they are together. She originally wanted to inquire about the news, but she stopped thinking about it at this time, and didn't want to think about Luo Xuewu's bad things at all, so she chatted with Xiaojuan in a whisper, talking about her parents and relatives at home, and talking about some trivial things on weekdays.
At this time, I saw a tall and thin girl walk in, Xiaojuan smiled when she saw it: "I just wanted to call you, but it happened that you came, this is the pandan I told you about, I met her on the day I entered the house, and I felt that I fell in love, and there were endless words." He said to Xianglan: "Her name is Tinglan, don't look at us as a year or two old, but what about the second-class maid, thanks to her always protecting me, otherwise I would be bad." He stuck out his tongue as he spoke.
Xianglan greeted with a smile and said, "Sister Tinglan." "Seeing Tinglan wearing a half-new indigo satin jacket, a white tooth-pinching vest, and a stone blue skirt underneath, with a long face, her eyebrows are so light that she can't see it, she draws very long with an eyebrow pen, she has a pair of apricot eyes, her mouth is slightly big, and she smiles and shows a mouthful of white teeth.
Tinglan smiled and waved her hand: "What is the name of 'sister', I am called old, Xiaojuan calls me Tinglan, don't see me." Seeing the mung bean cake in Xianglan's hand, she glanced at Xiaojuan and said, "This mung bean cake is still from yesterday, it's not fresh anymore, when I came over, I saw that the hibiscus cake was steaming in our small kitchen, I'll go get two pieces." ”
Xiaojuan hurriedly pulled Tinglan's sleeve: "You're crazy, you want Yingshuang and them to see it, and they won't tear you off!" ”
Ting Lan smiled and blinked: "The small kitchen is not full of frosty world, don't worry, I know it." With that, he went out. After a short time, I came back after a few hot hibiscus cakes in the handkerchief, and took a calendula clay pot in the other hand, Zhang Luo said: "Quickly bring the cup, here is honey tea, made for my wife in the morning, my wife didn't finish eating it and gave it to Sister Hongjian, the red paper is too sweet, no one eats it in the small kitchen, I quietly asked to bring it out, let's mix some hot water, and eat the cake." ”
Xiaojuan hurriedly lifted the copper kettle to make tea, and the three of them sat together, eating cakes and drinking tea, Xianglan deliberately befriended, Tinglan was also easy-going, and then there was Xiaojuan chattering, and the three of them laughed and talked very happily. Tinglan is a child, she was still young when she entered the house, and she stayed in the Zhichun Pavilion to do some chores, and later she got older, Zhao Yuechan sent all the coquettish and charming girls, and saw that she was not very beautiful, and she was honest and clever, and she did not do her best in the work, so she was stayed, and after a few years, she was promoted to the second class.
Xianglan ate a piece of cake, drank a sip of warm honey tea, and asked: "Speaking of which, our girl is causing trouble for my wife today, saying that the food is not as good as the original, and the portion has been reduced, and the dim sum is not as good as the original one, and even if it is delivered, it is only four or five yuan, which is not enough to eat." I don't know if the other brothers and sisters have also reduced their share? ”
Xiaojuan held the cake in her mouth and said vaguely: "It's just that your girl has a lot of trouble, she fought with Liubei outside the Shouxi Hall, and everyone in the whole house knows about it!" Liubei also suffered ten boards because of her, and she really didn't have a dream. ”
Ting Lanxian is a more experienced governor than Xiaojuan, as if she understood why Xianglan said these words, looked at her and smiled, and said, "The number of meals has been reduced, it's just ...... However, the monthly silver has risen, but the silver that has risen is directly subsidized to food. After saying that, he shut up, and tore the conversation away to talk about the patterns on Xiaojuan's clothes.
Xianglan was stunned and opened her eyes. Oh, this cousin is really shallow compared to her wife! The wife reduced the portion of the meal, but increased the monthly allowance of the masters, and the part of the silver directly subsidized to the meals--the soup was changed instead of the medicine, and the masters ate the same as before, except that the girls in this ring were very different from the original. She eats and lives for nothing in the house, but the house does not give her a monthly allowance. This is completely aimed at Cao Lihuan, but this cousin is not interesting, and she made a fuss with her wife without asking about the situation, and people may not know how to laugh at her behind her back!
Xianglan sighed quite emotionally, and thought in her heart that in a few months, Cao Lihuan would be out of the cabinet, she was the girl of the Lin family, of course she couldn't accompany her, so she naturally had to change the master to serve, and immediately asked Tinglan about the temperament of several brothers and sisters in the house. Tinglan told Xianglan what she knew, and before she knew it, after two teas, Xianglan got up and retired.
Before leaving, Tinglan grabbed a handful of melon seeds and dried apricots for Xianglan, and said with a smile: "When it's okay, come to me and Xiaojuan." ”
Xiaojuan smiled: "You all have the word 'Lan' in your name, which is strange and looks like a sister." ”
Xianglan was also a little reluctant, and agreed to sit for a while next time, and then returned to Luo Xuewu.
The second update, let's double change according to the agreement, ask for tickets, ask for collections, ask for messages ^_^~~